Movie Info

Director Chris Smith's fascinating deep dive into actor Jim Carrey's time spent portraying famed and complicated comedian Andy Kaufman. Using approximately 100 hours of footage shot on the set of Man on the Moon documenting Carrey's transformation into Kaufman for four months. Jim Carrey earned critical acclaim and a Golden Globe for the performance, but many of the production's most Kaufmanesque moments played out behind the scenes, thankfully captured on video by Andy's former girlfriend, Lynne Margulies and former writing partner, Bob Zmuda. In Jim & Andy, Carrey looks back at the resulting footage 18 years later, reflecting on how he and Andy came up in oddly parallel universes, his experience channelling Andy and Tony and more broadly the spiritual journey of his career.

... thanks to "Jim & Andy," viewers will come away not just with greater insight about them, but also the pitfalls that potentially face those who beat the odds by turning an open-mic night into a thriving career.

Like those in the headlines facing the music for their past actions, Jim Carey seems afraid to fully own up to his own horrible behavior. "It wasn't me! I was possessed by the spirit of Andy Kaufman," is basically the gist of his defense.

Audience Reviews for Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton

½

It is quite nice to see these images released to the public after so many years, now in a curious documentary that explores Jim Carrey's creative process showing us how he embraced the character of Andy Kaufman and even treated him (as well as Tony Clifton) as a real human being.

Carlos Magalhães

Super Reviewer

Great documentary with a lot of behind the scenes footage from the making of "Man on the moon." Carrey disappearing entirely behind his role Andy Kaufman/Tony Clifton at the time and looking back on that period and his entire career now are telling us a lot about the man, the actor and his roles. The similarities between him and Kaufman are striking.